Radio Astronomer, Curtin University
I have a Masters in Physics with Astrophysics and did my PhD research by helping build and commission a new radio telescope in Cambridge, UK, with which I performed the first science with the instrument. Due to the imminent construction of the Square Kilometer Array, I made a move to the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Western Australia, to work on a prototype instrument, the Murchison Widefield Array. I have been working as a postdoctoral researcher in Perth for five years, accumulating an in-depth knowledge of radio astronomy, the southern radio sky, and supercomputing.
What the universe looks like when viewed with radio eyes
Oct 27, 2016 05:43 am UTC| Science
To the naked eye, the universe we can see on a clear night is dotted with thousands of stars, but what would it look like if human eyes could see radio waves? Deep in the Western Australian outback a radio telescope is...
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